And thinking like this can only justify the reasoning of those who empathize with terrorism against the West.
???? So how should we think about your former relationship with these guys? Or Chalabi? Or your current relationship with the Saudi royalty and with various Sadaam/Osama clones in central Asia?
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The instability in the Saudi government is caused by tension between the extremely radical Islamic groups and the fundamentally corrupt government.
I don't think you need to be a "extremely radical Islamic" to be pissed off at a fundamentally corrupt (and repressive and incompetent) government.
Penguins can also flop down on their bellies and propell themselves across the ice/snow with their flippers. They travel in groups, single file, and can cover considerable distances at impressive speeds (compared to waddling, at least). I have seen this in a TV documentary but cannot find much about it on the web.
How do they make you pay? I still owe parking tickets in Berkeley. It's been perhaps four years since I last heard from the city of berkeley about them. I actually live in a different county so maybe it's harder for them to force me to pay. I don't know.
I don't think in this state they can suspend your driver's license or anything for parking tickets.
Where I live they get you when you renew your plates. I'll mention that to Arnie next time I see him, he can use the money.
We really needed someone to come up w/the bright idea to allow dynamic changes to parking meters.... Want a way to stop people from coming downtown? Raise the rates on the meters even higher.
Suppose you dynamically adjusted the rates so high that 10% of the parking spaces were always vacant. Then rich folks could always be sure of finding parking. Wouldn't that make downtown merchants happy?
Actually it will just mean that Saudi princelings and their pals (like the Bin Ladens) will have less petrodollars to spend on palaces in Vail and Vegas and the French Riviera.
Their "loyal subjects" will continue to be dirt poor. Unless they start to get uppity like the Americans 230 years ago. Which they will do, if the Iraqis manage to kick the Americans out.
Same with packing circles into a rectangle. For small rectangles the best solution is a rectangular array. For larger rectangles a hexagonal array is better.
More squares can be packed when they are not packed in such a regular pattern.
For some reason (I can't remember) I switched from lpr to cups. It works fine with GUI applications but I no longer have the lpr command - is there some equivalent in cups?
When we see a white dwarf star orbiting around a red giant we don't quibble about whether the dwarf is a planet or star or star-oid or whatever. We classify it according to its intrinsic properties.
It would be useful to classify smaller bodies in the same way, regardless of their orbital situation:
1) Gas giants.
2) Bodies made of heavier elements large enough to have vulcanism and tectonic activity.
3) Smaller solid bodies large enough to be rounded by gravity.
4) Even smaller solid bodies, sub-classified into rocky and iron.
5)Dirty snowballs.
Of course there will not be an exact boundary between these classes. For example, vulcanisn in "planets" is fueled by long-lived radioactives but in Jupiter's "moons" by tidal energy.
Possibly there could be intermediate objects between 1) and 2) or between 1) and 5) or 3) and 5). Concievably there could be bodies made of water or solid methane or blue cheese but these would be unlikely to form naturally.
Fortunately for Hawking and Thorne, encyclopedias have collapsed into tiny, relatively inexpensive disks while retaining all their information content.
They insist that one day there will be lots of elevators ferrying satellites, prospectors and even tourists into space.
"If the whole thing fell somehow like you cut it at the counterweight, cut it way up at the counterweight, it would wrap around the Earth a couple of times,"
These all have to be on the equator. If one breaks and wraps around the earth it would take out some others - chain reaction.
Heavily populated areas near the equator are in western Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Uganda and of course Ecuador.
whether or not phone numbers are the property of their owner
IIRC, in ancient times phone companies would put in a new exchange and tell some customers "Your number has been changed from XYZ-ABCD to PQR-ABCD. Get used to it." Just as they do with area codes today.
My comment was a bit frivolous - you say people tell the truth because they want to be trusted, have friends - i.e. to get what they want - as was said about lying.
If you found out that I'd parked my motor home on your vacant lot for six months and you didn't notice, you would probably call it "theft" or "stealing" but it's not "theft" in any legal sense. You could try to have me prosecuted criminally for trespassing or sue me for damages, good luck.
Actually people deliberatly lie for one reason: to get what they want. If I'm lying to avoid conflict or generate conflict, I'm still lying to get what I want.
What about people who tell the truth? Why do they do that?
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And thinking like this can only justify the reasoning of those who empathize with terrorism against the West.
????
So how should we think about your former relationship with these guys? Or Chalabi? Or your current relationship with the Saudi royalty and with various Sadaam/Osama clones in central Asia?
The instability in the Saudi government is caused by tension between the extremely radical Islamic groups and the fundamentally corrupt government.
I don't think you need to be a "extremely radical Islamic" to be pissed off at a fundamentally corrupt (and repressive and incompetent) government.
This one has room for your soccer team and can go offroad. Not 1000 hp, but you could probably fit in a Bugatti engine if you wanted to soup it up.
Penguins can also flop down on their bellies and propell themselves across the ice/snow with their flippers. They travel in groups, single file, and can cover considerable distances at impressive speeds (compared to waddling, at least). I have seen this in a TV documentary but cannot find much about it on the web.
How do they make you pay? I still owe parking tickets in Berkeley. It's been perhaps four years since I last heard from the city of berkeley about them. I actually live in a different county so maybe it's harder for them to force me to pay. I don't know.
I don't think in this state they can suspend your driver's license or anything for parking tickets.
Where I live they get you when you renew your plates. I'll mention that to Arnie next time I see him, he can use the money.
We really needed someone to come up w/the bright idea to allow dynamic changes to parking meters. ...
Want a way to stop people from coming downtown? Raise the rates on the meters even higher.
Suppose you dynamically adjusted the rates so high that 10% of the parking spaces were always vacant.
Then rich folks could always be sure of finding parking.
Wouldn't that make downtown merchants happy?
Actually it will just mean that Saudi princelings and their pals (like the Bin Ladens) will have less petrodollars to spend on palaces in Vail and Vegas and the French Riviera.
Their "loyal subjects" will continue to be dirt poor. Unless they start to get uppity like the Americans 230 years ago. Which they will do, if the Iraqis manage to kick the Americans out.
If by some miracle they produce something 'threatening', it will be because it's good or because the others have slacked off.
Usually they try to buy a competing company or hire the brains behind it.
Yes, but the maker already has the "SEA-DOO" and "SKI-DOO" product lines
Is it the same maker?
I can't Goggle any connection between scuba-doo and Bombardier.
Same with packing circles into a rectangle.
For small rectangles the best solution is a rectangular array.
For larger rectangles a hexagonal array is better.
More squares can be packed when they are not packed in such a regular pattern.
I'll have to think about that.
For some reason (I can't remember) I switched from lpr to cups. It works fine with GUI applications but I no longer have the lpr command - is there some equivalent in cups?
Not obvious to me from the docs.
When we see a white dwarf star orbiting around a red giant we don't quibble about whether the dwarf is a planet or star or star-oid or whatever. We classify it according to its intrinsic properties.
It would be useful to classify smaller bodies in the same way, regardless of their orbital situation:
1) Gas giants.
2) Bodies made of heavier elements large enough to have vulcanism and tectonic activity.
3) Smaller solid bodies large enough to be rounded by gravity.
4) Even smaller solid bodies, sub-classified into rocky and iron.
5)Dirty snowballs.
Of course there will not be an exact boundary between these classes. For example, vulcanisn in "planets" is fueled by long-lived radioactives but in Jupiter's "moons" by tidal energy.
Possibly there could be intermediate objects between 1) and 2) or between 1) and 5) or 3) and 5). Concievably there could be bodies made of water or solid methane or blue cheese but these would be unlikely to form naturally.
and why would you need one anyway? You have the U.S. to defend you.
And what was the US doing last time Canada was invaded?
(tricky historical question)
After IBM delivers copies of the AIX source code, SCO will then get just two weeks to conclude its examination and make any additional claims.
Will IBM give Darl the code on easily copiable CD's or on a truckload of paper accompanied by IBM guards?
It's like giving away free stuff along with other things, then later claiming everybody bought your stuff when they just bought something else.
In the newspaper/magazine business it's called "paid circulation" (important for selling ads).
That's why you get "free" stuff if you "buy" a subscription.
if America is such a terrible place, like the socialists say, why does everyone want to live there?
Same reason people wanted to live in imperial Rome or Britain - that's where all the money ends up.
Fortunately for Hawking and Thorne, encyclopedias have collapsed into tiny, relatively inexpensive disks while retaining all their information content.
In my experience I need to hold down the button for a second or two to ensure that the "traffic Signal Controller" notices.
You could basically do all of the things the space station does
What does the Space Station do?
They insist that one day there will be lots of elevators ferrying satellites, prospectors and even tourists into space.
"If the whole thing fell somehow like you cut it at the counterweight, cut it way up at the counterweight, it would wrap around the Earth a couple of times,"
These all have to be on the equator. If one breaks and wraps around the earth it would take out some others - chain reaction.
Heavily populated areas near the equator are in western Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Uganda and of course Ecuador.
whether or not phone numbers are the property of their owner
IIRC, in ancient times phone companies would put in a new exchange and tell some customers "Your number has been changed from XYZ-ABCD to PQR-ABCD. Get used to it."
Just as they do with area codes today.
My comment was a bit frivolous - you say people tell the truth because they want to be trusted, have friends - i.e. to get what they want - as was said about lying.
;>)
Very interesting comment of yours though.
Bah.
If you found out that I'd parked my motor home on your vacant lot for six months and you didn't notice, you would probably call it "theft" or "stealing" but it's not "theft" in any legal sense. You could try to have me prosecuted criminally for trespassing or sue me for damages, good luck.
If you are aprogrammer you might only have to lie once or twice a week.
Oh, come on. How often do you write comments or documentation?
Actually people deliberatly lie for one reason: to get what they want. If I'm lying to avoid conflict or generate conflict, I'm still lying to get what I want.
What about people who tell the truth? Why do they do that?